With all the polls currently in the barn, it's a perfect opening snap for the Monday Muse.

1. Who REALLY likes this Louisville football team?

The Associated Press pre-season college football Top 25 arrived Sunday. Bobby Petrino's team, his third at the University of Louisville, was ranked 19th, third among teams representing the Atlantic Coast Conference.

It's two spots higher than where I have the Cards -- and in the neighborhood of where they have been placed in the pre-season magazines.

But there are 61 AP voters. Some like Louisville more than most like Louisville.

Who are the five voters who believe that Louisville will be fabulous and see the Cards as a BUY stock?

Here are the five who gave the Cardinals' their best pre-season ranking (Send them a Thermos):

*Jeff Miller, Orange County (Calif.) Register: His seat at the 50-yard line is secure. He's got Louisville 9th, ahead of Tennessee, Notre Dame and Michigan State. Nobody like U of L more than Miller.

One of the first things I did after seeing the AP numbers was look for the name of the team was ranked 19th in the AP pre-season poll last season.

It was Oklahoma.

I'll pause while you exhale.

The Sooners enjoyed a fabulous season -- until they ran into Clemson in the national semifinals. But OU proved it is possible to upgrade from a seat in the 19th row to a seat at the Final Four.

It can be done. Here is the rest of the story from the last five seasons. Two teams finished the year with a higher ranking. Two slid out of the Top 25. Georgia started where it finished five seasons ago.

The rundown on the last five teams ranked 19th prior to the first kickoff and how they finished the season:

2015 -- Oklahoma, 5th in the playoff.

2014 -- Arizona State, 15th, 9-3.

2013 -- Boise State, 8-5, unranked

2012 -- Oklahoma State, 8-5, unranked.

2011 -- Georgia, 19th, 10-4

4. AP pre-season ranking last 10 national champions

Where do college football national champions come from -- and I don't simply mean from the Southeastern Conference?

Typically, they come from the pre-season top five. That is where seven of the last 10 were ranked in the AP pre-season poll. Two of the last 10 started outside the top 10.

If you're making your list of the likely 2016 winner, I'd nominate Alabama, Clemson, Oklahoma, Florida State or Louisiana State.

The rundown:

2015 Alabama, pre-season No. 3.

2014 Ohio State, No. 5.

2013 Florida State No. 11.

2012 Alabama, No. 2.

2011 Alabama, No. 2.

2010 Auburn, No. 22.

2009 Alabama, No. 5.

2008 Florida, No. 5.

2007 LSU, No. 2.

2006 Florida, No. 7.

5. Opening week point spread trends

It's unrealistic to expect major movement in Las Vegas lines for the first week of the season until we move into game week.

But let's look anyway at VegasInsiders.com, in case the wise guys are seeing things the rest of us are missing:

Charlotte at Louisville, Sept. 1: The Cardinals were favored to edge the 49ers by 39 ½ points when this game opened on May 18 -- and that's still the call.

Indiana at FIU, Sept. 1: The Hoosiers opened as three-point favorites in early May and moved to an 8-point pick by late June. They're still the choice by 9 as they have been since Aug. 9

Rice at Western Kentucky, Sept. 1: It's unusual for a team to be favored by 17 in a conference game on opening weekend, but WKU has stirred that kind of confidence from oddsmakers.

Southern Miss at Kentucky, Sept. 3: The Wildcats opened as 7 1/2-point favorites on May 18. The number slipped to 6 ½ last Thursday.

If the Charlotte Observer isn’t worried about the 49ers, why should burn another Monday Muse item on Louisville’s season opener?

I won’t – not with Florida State going down another quarterback.

A week after the Seminoles said that Sean McGuire, a possible starter, was out with foot issues, FSU coach Jimbo Fisher said Malik Henry, his prime freshman QB, was out because of an indefinite suspension. (The link.)

The Noles still have Deondre Francois, a talented redshirt freshman, so it’s not like they’ll be forced to play Chris Weinke or Danny Kanell.

But I’m guessing that isn’t the way Jimbo wanted training camp to work.

8. Vandy is Vandy

Vanderbilt fans don't like those three words.

I know. I've said them a few times and have the e-mails and voice messages to prove it.

But part of the Vandy is Vandy story-line revolves around moments like this: Paul Myerberg of USA Today is a fierce student of college football. He studies every team and uses that investment of time and analysis to rank all 128 FBS teams prior to the season.

He watched and studied Vanderbilt.

Myerberg ranked the Commodores 113.

That is last in the SEC, 42 spots behind Kentucky and 18 behind Missouri, the second-worst team in the SEC.